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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1939
Page
8
A fragment mentions Ghiro bay and a Neurocalometer near State Bank Building in Eikader Iowa, leaving scattered clues about a regional note or equipment reference without clear context or outcomes. No person or organization names beyond generic places appear.
Residents from Lester and nearby areas spent the weekend with family in Ed Meteger’s home and other locals. Several 4 H club activities were organized at the Jake Christen home with Kyle Jones as speaker, and numerous dinner and Sunday visits occurred across Hanson, Dennler, Pulfer, and Meisner households.
Local households share visits and calls across Oak Grove. Neighbors including the Winklers, Gilsons, Dennlers, Hunsbergers, and Nelsons recount gatherings, hospital stays, moves, bazaars, and care in the Elkatier and West Union areas, with multiple dinners and card parties recorded.
Mr and Mrs Silas Wilson and son visited the Glen Miger home near Wadena. Sunday afternoon Mrs Harry Gilson Mrs Wayne Gilson and Gary called at the Hans Winkler home. Wednesday they hauled and stacked corn fodder.
Gunder residents hosted and visited friends across the region including Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Wold, Burdette of St. Olaf, and Clermont families. Mayo Clinic visit for Louis Kjosa from Rochester. Dorcas Society Christmas party planned for Dec 16 in church parlors. Alden Kurth relocates to a farm east of Gunder as locals bid farewell. Clarence Nelson elected director in district No. 1 to fill Kurth’s vacancy. Various residents helped remodels and hosted dinners, with several trips to Elkader and Osage noted.
Ada Potts of Oelwein visited Sunday in the Sidney Nutting home. Gladys Yearous spent the weekend with Marian Patterson. Mr and Mrs Wm Nutting and sons were dinner guests in the Frank Lyon home Sunday. Eugene Nutting and wife spent Friday in Oelwein at the Albert Baldwin home.
Clara and Chesley Boyer spent the weekend at the Clyde Crandall home near Hawkeye. Mrs Clarence Tripp visited the Arthur Patterson home Friday. Gladys Yearous and Marian Patterson attended a teachers meeting at Oelwein last Saturday. Mr and Mrs Joe Peters and family were guests Sunday in the George Howard home. Herman Boyer and Stanley hosted dinner for Mr and Mrs John Howard Sunday. Fred Wedo family and Fonell Severn joined Vern Boyer home guests. Youths met at Herman Boyer home Thursday for choir practice and drew Christmas gift exchange names. Men hauled and sawed wood for Brainard church last Wednesday. Ladies served church dinner. Brainard Church Notes: Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. Preaching at 8 p.m. by Rev Burrows of Fredericksburg.
A long listing recounts numerous Illyria residents and guests visiting over the weekend from Kenmare Lester Elkader Dubuque and Ossian with mentions of cattle sales near Austin Minnesota. The piece notes social events at the cemetery association and Ladies Aid, a Highland school social, and a Christmas tree plan for the Illyria Community church Sunday school.
A sequence of weekend visits and social calls across West Union and nearby communities highlights multiple hosts and guests. Families including the McKellars Rothlisbergers Shaffers Yearous and Frieden host relatives and friends from Cresco Traer Randalia Maynard Hawkeye and Clermont with birthdays and church group meetings noted.
Day of Mr and Mrs Millard Sampson near Castalia included visits from Mr and Mrs Emil Moor and son Orval Mr and Mrs Andrew Yearous Mr and Mrs Earl Scheffert and son Lanny Mrs Harold Glass and Mrs L W McKellar with the Wil Frieden family Mr and Mrs Arthur Kelly and son Dale visited Mrs Nancy Ernst Sunday Ina Kohler and Ellen Hunsberger were supper guests Saturday of Mr and Mrs Jerome Yearous
Fred C. Perkins, a York battery maker who gained national notice in 1934 by refusing NRA code, says he has paid none of the employer’s share of the Social Security tax since its inception until January 1937. He claims to have deducted the employee’s share and remitted it to the government instead.
Collier’s declares that a cubic mile of ordinary fog made of tiny moisture droplets contains less than a gallon of water.
The New York board of education, as part of civics instruction, conducts a spring program taking about 16,000 high school students on a ferryboat excursion around Marka ae iyeuid.
The fragment presents a paraphrase of a Benjamin Franklin maxim about marriage and health as essential wealth for men. It lacks a clear event, place, or date and cannot be expanded with verifiable entities.
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